Contact & consultation

Arranging an assessment

Outpatient appointments are booked through the hospital on the numbers below; international patients can ask for Michael Yu. Bring anything you know about your bite, previous orthodontic treatment and any earlier jaw surgery, and bring photographs of yourself from earlier years if you have them.

What a good assessment includes

An examination of how the teeth meet and whether the lower jaw sits forward or back; an assessment of the jaw angle and the width of the lower face, including how much of it is bone rather than muscle or fat; and imaging where an operation is being considered. The bite and the outline are assessed separately, because they lead to different plans.

Asking about the plan

Ask which question the proposed operation answers, and what the other question would require if it turned out to be the real one. Ask whether an orthodontist has been involved and what the orthodontic phase would involve, if the plan includes one. Ask what could be done if you did not like the result, and what that would involve. Ask what changes about your bite, and what does not.

Before you commit

No decision needs to be made at the first appointment. Where the bite is involved, the plan takes shape over more than one appointment and with an orthodontist, and there is time to consider it. Take the plan away, read it against the guides on this site, and come back with questions. Being referred for an orthodontic or bite assessment is a finding rather than a refusal.